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get_temporary_link with zip files causing Google Chrome warning
Hi
Google Chrome (83, Mac) has started giving me a 'Dangerous File' warning whenever trying to download zip files specifically served by the 'get_temporary_link' API call. I have 'Safe Browsing...
This should be fixed now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues like this.
Thanks for the reply. If it helps, I've copied the headers below for the same file downloaded through Amazon S3 (which was considered safe by Google), their headers are more 'threadbare'.
But I agree, ultimately this seems down to some internal logic at Google, and while I will report this I wonder if Dropbox could also report this themseleves, considering this is an issue that you've independantly confirmed and one that is likely to affect all dropbox customers using this API call (and potentially other API calls) for delivering zip files?
HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amz-id-2: 7MxPN6hDhv+Rmb9kvfQN64Z2WnSeGI5jhHvP2s6OGpSo7B4ORWyFQ/A+TnOzkTtqN8AAKnj6He0= x-amz-request-id: A1EA9FD1D0064990 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:32:31 GMT Last-Modified: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:31:27 GMT ETag: "72b5b016974907dcadc1644b08ff28c6-4" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Type: application/zip Content-Length: 60328012 Server: AmazonS3
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks! Yes, we're also looking into what we may be able to do about it on our side. I'll follow up here with any updates.
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